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Now in these cases, wherein such evil Spirits have an hand, ^athe events of them fall not out always alike; by reason that sometime ^bthey fail, ⟨p. 355⟩notwithstanding their skill, in those things that by their natural wisdom and subtlety they foresee in the secret causes or signs of them, when God by some extraordinary course turneth things about, and controlleth the ordinary carriage of the creature: As the Patient sometime dieth through some inward accident unexpected, where the Physician according to the rules and grounds of his Art saw no signs but of safety: or as if a Mariner upon good grounds of observation should give his opinion, that that storm of wind should last long that ^cChrist suddenly calmed: Or an Husbandman should promise much fruit of a vine such a year, judging according to his skill, which should afterward either be blasted with lightning, or rooted up by some wild beast breaking into the Vine-yard: And so these unclean Spirits, notwithstanding all their skill and experience, fail oft in their predictions, when some greater power overswaieth that that they builded upon.

Now in these cases, wherein such euill Spirits haue an hand, ^athe euents of them fall not out alwaies alike; by reason that sometime ^bthey faile, ⟨p. 355⟩notwithstanding their skill, in those things that by their naturall wisedome and subtilty they foresee in the secret causes or signes of them, when God by some extraordinary course turneth things about, and controlleth the ordinary cariage of the creature: As the Patient sometime dieth through some inward accident vnexpected, where the Physitian according to the rules and grounds of his Art saw no signes but of safety: or as if a Mariner vpon good grounds of obseruation should giue his opinion, that that storme of winde should last long that